Na yi haƙuri kawai ina karanta littafi har motar ta fara tafiya.

Literally, Na yi haƙuri is:

• na – “I” (1st person perfective marker)
• yi – “did / made”
• haƙuri – “patience, endurance”

So word‑for‑word: “I did patience” → idiomatically “I was patient / I endured / I waited patiently.”

In this sentence it means “I waited patiently / I just endured the wait”, not “I said sorry.” It focuses on putting up with the situation (the car not moving yet) rather than apologizing.

Hausa very often uses light verbs like yi (“to do/make”) with a noun to form a verbal expression.

Some common ones:

• yi haƙuri – to be patient / endure
• yi magana – to speak (lit. “do speech”)
• yi tafiya – to travel, go on a journey (lit. “do travel”)

So yi haƙuri is the normal idiomatic way to say “be patient / endure.” There is a verb jira for “wait”, but:

• Na yi haƙuri = “I was patient / I bore with it.”
• Na jira = “I waited (for something/someone).”

In this context, the speaker is emphasizing enduring the wait patiently, so yi haƙuri is natural.